Palabras clave
pluralismo vasco
historiografía
nacionalismo
País Vasco
terrorismo.
Resumen
Este texto analiza la elaboración historiográfica del concepto de «pluralismo vasco » como tesis explicativa de la contemporaneidad vasca desde los años de la Transición hasta la actualidad. Una vez ubicado en el contexto de la época en que fue elaborado, se discute su operatividad explicativa como relato sobre el pasado de los vascos y su potencialidad para emplazar las tesis historiográficas en los debates políticos. A partir de la experiencia vasca, este artículo reflexiona sobre las estrechas relaciones entre biografía, memoria e historia en el análisis historiográfico contemporáneo y, muy especialmente, en el dedicado al fenómeno de la nación y la violencia.
Keywords
basque pluralism; historiography; nationalism; Basque Country; terrorism.
Abstract
In this historical essay we study the historiographical making of the concept of Basque Pluralism as a means of explaining Contemporary Basque Country and its multiple civic and political problems. This historical concept was developed by a new generation of historians and social theorists in the time of the Spanish Transition to Democracy and it has obtained an important success in the political and mediatic discourse.
We discuss here its scientific viability as a narrative of the Basque past and its political implications as a historical tool to be placed in the public debate on violence and nationalism. Regarding Basque Pluralism we intend to expose the tight relationship among biography, collective memory and historical writing in the Spanish and Basque historiography, specially that specialized in issues concerning nationalism and political violence.
We discuss here its scientific viability as a narrative of the Basque past and its political implications as a historical tool to be placed in the public debate on violence and nationalism. Regarding Basque Pluralism we intend to expose the tight relationship among biography, collective memory and historical writing in the Spanish and Basque historiography, specially that specialized in issues concerning nationalism and political violence.